AFAIK, beehaw does not agree with open registration from lemmy.world and lemmy.ml, and does not want to take on the added influx of new users interacting with their instance since their registration is closed

For just the beehaw communities the posts aren’t showing up in my subscribed feed, which is why I asked

Yup, anyone can do it but it’s definitely a resource heavy task

Oh okay. Must be something else then in my case

It’s not the same. The idea is not to defederate, but to STAY federated, while making your instance seem like the best and only option.

To extend your analogy, it would be more like if lemmy.world stayed federated, but switched over to its own forked implementation of lemmy. Slowly introducing cool new features that only exist on their fork to entice users away to their instance. Maybe you see a message like “sign up to lemmy.world to see this” or “your instance is not compatible with this”. Now you’re forcing other instances to either die or play catch up.

Now obviously the folks at lemmy.world wouldnt do such a thing, because the instance is being run by like minded people who just want to host lemmy. But this is a very real tactic that can be implemented by the likes of google/microsoft/meta.

Now, Lemmy is AGPL licensed which is a nice safety net, but I’m sure a sufficiently motivated company could try to find ways around it.

Thanks! But idk if that tool reports everything though. For example if I put in lemmy.world, it says its blocked by beehaw. But if I put in beehaw.org, it doesnt list lemmy.world in its blocking section 🤔

Upload worked for me now!

Can confirm the issue still exists for me. The error is slightly different when I use Firefox and Edge.

Firefox

SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data.

Edge

SyntaxError: Unexpected token 'R', "Request er"... is not valid JSON

Absolutely loved this game! I’ve played this and Buu’s Fury to death.

I don’t think most people are going to take that second step though. Most people will look up the main website and choose something from there

I’m not sure this is user dependent considering this is on the admin docs page. For users to subscribe to a community on another instance, that instances admin has to allow federation with the other instance.

I just feel like the bare minimum is not strict enough; you could theoretically have an almost fully defederated instance while still having a listing and potentially getting user sign-ups from the lemmy home site.

I could in theory create two such instances, federate only with one popular instance, get both listed, then only federate with each other. Completely diminishes the default experience users will have on signing up to my instances

Why do all of Zucc companies terms and conditions have this air of desperation and grubbiness about them? 😂

No other services feel as slimy even though they’re all doing mostly the same things.

Meta feels like you’re interacting with a drug addicted stalker following you home

The screenshot is from this documentation page for administrating a lemmy instance

My biggest takeaway with open source projects is this:

Theres there’s a HUGE jump from being power user friendly to being user friendly in general. Significantly bigger than the jump from dev/contributor users to power users.

UX is something huge companies spend a lot of time and money on to ensure the layman can use the software well, something open source developers do not have the luxury of caring about from the get go.

Power users do not recognize the inbuilt muscle memory they have acquired over time to get around some of the more nagging aspects of the software and get frustrated with new users for not doing the same, while these new users get frustrated at things not being straightforward, or similar to some other software they’re used to.

IMO this push and pull is what is truly preventing a Linux desktop experience that is truly layman friendly. But when it works, and an open source project can slowly start putting more of their time into UX when the project is more mature, then it truly starts kicking ass.

Look at how far Blender has come since the 3.0 update. A lot of studios are straight up switching to it for a lot of work that was traditionally Max or Maya based. Obviously you still have some of the “old guard” who felt a little alienated with the sweeping changes from 2.7 to 3, but I feel blender is objectively better for most people since then.

TL;DR: OSS always deals with different competing needs for power users vs regular users, but given enough time things get smoothened out

Would love to see a vsauce style video

Heyy Vsauce, Michael here. But where ‘here’ is in modern computers, is very different from where ‘here’ was, or used to be in older PCs. But why is that?

What would you rather see happen with lemmy, if not wider adoption?